Solutions Architect Professional (Page 44)

A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances.The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations.The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month.However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?Read More →

An organization is planning to setup a management network on the AWS VPC.The organization is trying to secure the webserver on a single VPC instance such that it allows the internet traffic as well as the back-end management traffic.The organization wants to make so that the back end management network interface can receive the SSH traffic only from a selected IP range, while the internet facing webserver will have an IP address which can receive traffic from all the internetIPs.How can the organization achieve this by running web server on a single instance?Read More →

A company wants to use a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.The third-party SaaS application is consumed through several API calls.The third-party SaaS application also runs on AWS inside a VPC.The company will consume the third-party SaaS application from inside a VPC.The company has internal security policies that mandate the use of private connectivity that does not traverse the internet.No resources that run in the company VPC are allowed to be accessed from outside the company’s VPC.All permissions must conform to the principles of least privilege.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

The user has provisioned the PIOPS volume with an EBS optimized instance.Generally speaking, in which I/O chunk should the bandwidth experienced by the user be measured by AWS?Read More →

A company has many AWS accounts and uses AWS Organizations to manage all of them.A solutions architect must implement a solution that the company can use to share a common network across multiple accounts.The company’s infrastructure team has a dedicated infrastructure account that has a VPC.The infrastructure team must use this account to manage the network.Individual accounts cannot have the ability to manage their own networks.However, individual accounts must be able to create AWS resources within subnets.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

An organization has created 5 IAM users.The organization wants to give them the same login ID but different passwords.How can the organization achieve this?Read More →

A retail company is operating its ecommerce application on AWS.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The company uses an Amazon RDS DB instance as the database backend.Amazon CloudFront is configured with one origin that points to the ALB.Static content is cached.Amazon Route 53 is used to host all public zones.After an update of the application, the ALB occasionally returns a 502 status code (Bad Gateway) error.The root cause is malformed HTTP headers that are returned to the ALB.The webpage returns successfully when a solutions architect reloads the webpage immediately after the error occurs.While the company is working on the problem, the solutions architect needs to provide a custom error page instead of the standard ALB error page to visitors.Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Choose two.)Read More →

In Amazon VPC, what is the default maximum number of BGP advertised routes allowed per route table?Read More →

A company is hosting a critical application on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The application uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis single-node cluster for an in-memory data store.The application uses an Amazon RDS for MariaDB DB instance for a relational database.For the application to function, each piece of the infrastructure must be healthy and must be in an active state.A solutions architect needs to improve the application’s architecture so that the infrastructure can automatically recover from failure with the least possible downtime.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

The CFO of a company wants to allow one of his employees to view only the AWS usage report page.Which of the below mentioned IAM policy statements allows the user to have access to the AWS usage report page?Read More →